Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
I boxed 15 years in a club.
Uwe Boll -
Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
Dan Hill -
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
Frances Farmer -
When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
Garth Brooks -
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
Iggy Azalea -
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
Barbra Streisand -
You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
Yahoo Serious -
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar -
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
D. H. Lawrence -
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Vidal Sassoon
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Walter Benjamin -
Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.
Eric Clapton Cream -
Drive for a couple miles You'll see a sign and turn left For a couple blocks Next is mine, you'll turn left on a little road It's a bumpy one.
Brian Wilson -
At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying to stop what you’re doing. They threaten people, your family, saying: 'Your children won’t find jobs.'
Ai Weiwei -
I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom -
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Jeffrey Sachs -
Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
Richard Roeper -
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Jeanette Winterson